Master mechanics & wicked wizards
Subtitle: images of the American scientist as hero and villain from colonial times to the present
By: Glen Scott Allen.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781558497023; 9781558497030
Subjects: Science -- United States -- History; Scientists -- United States -- History
Other titles: Master mechanics and wicked wizards
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Simon pure amateurs : American scientists of the early nineteenth century; title: Sex and the single mad scientist : domesticating scientific passion in nineteenth century American literature; title: A cabinet of wonders : selling American science in the nineteenth century; title: The world of tomorrow : technocracy as utopia in the age of pulps; title: The incredible shrinking scientist : how the heroes of los alamos became internationalist traitors; title: Invaders with Ph.D.'s : aliens, commies, and eggheads in science fiction films of the 1950s; title: Fallout : politics and paranoia after the bomb; title: Rocket science : (their Sputniks) + (our dudniks) = NASA; title: Tom Swift and the cosmic astronauts : pilots, pitchmen, warriors, or mechanics?; title: America vs. the evil empire(s) : good astronauts, bad aliens, and the battle for the high frontier; title: Looking backward : useful vs. wicked inventing in colonial America; title: Déjà vu all over again : fear, funding, and ignorance in contemporary scientific "controversies."